% of the fleet winterised?

Atlantic Dawn

Anyhone know what percentage of the vehicles on Irelands roads are winterised, ie, can go pretty much anywhere based on snow and ice or thereabouts based on their awd 4wd setup. I'm thinking myself less than 1%.

MuppetCheck

I'm goosed anyway. Not that bothered though as can work from home and my driveway is insurmountable if the weather's crap meaning I have an excuse:D

But I'd imagine last winter a lot of people got burned on this stuff expecting the worst and then getting mild enough weather. Has anyone been looking at 4wd cars over the last while and noticed any increase in prices?

GTE

100% of my fleet is.*



*one car.

Alanstrainor

I'm also goosed. Tyres on mine are poor in the wet in the summer, never mind cold and ice. Car simply will not leave the drive if things freeze over.

ednwireland

Firestone. Winterhawks went on yesterday drove from donegal to Belfast at 4am today

_Kaiser_

My A6 is a Quattro with decent tyres on it so I should be ok - the bad winter of 2010 (when I did a commute from the wilds of Cavan to Dublin every day in my last Passat) taught me a lot. Was -14 one morning according to the temp gauge.

I have booked the next week off anyway but can work from home too if needed. Have a bit of a spin tonight but aside from that I won't be going too far till later in the week.

(Oh and have a great Christmas guys, but be safe if you are out and about )

Cleveland Hot Pocket

of mine, I'll only be taking the carina out if it is anyway icy.

535 & truck are both large engined and torquey and RWD. Fun to drive around in the ice but only in a large flat space not on a main road!

MarkR

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Anyhone know what percentage of the vehicles on Irelands roads are winterised, ie, can go pretty much anywhere based on snow and ice or thereabouts based on their awd 4wd setup. I'm thinking myself less than 1%.

Go on OP, tell us what you have. It better have a snorkel, more use this year!

pred racer

I dont put on the handbrake if it going to freeze, does that count?

Anan1

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Anyhone know what percentage of the vehicles on Irelands roads are winterised, ie, can go pretty much anywhere based on snow and ice or thereabouts based on their awd 4wd setup. I'm thinking myself less than 1%.

Winter tyres count for a lot more than awd when it gets slippy out.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

On Ice AWD does nothing.

Dord

FWD and I have snow socks in the boot. Better than nothing I suppose. I had winter tyres last year but the ride is bad enough on all seasons, on winters it was awful.

Anan1

Dord wrote: »

FWD and I have snow socks in the boot. Better than nothing I suppose. I had winter tyres last year but the ride is bad enough on all seasons, on winters it was awful.

That's weird, I've generally found cars to ride a bit better (albeit a bit more noisily) on winter tyres.

TrailerBob

Landcruiser ftw*





* snow, flooding, trees down etc - unstoppable

Not great on ice, but if I take it easy it pulls well on it.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I'm totally prepared. I have an AWD legacy and have a set of rims with Continental winter tyres if needed and another set with Yokohama snow/ice tyres if things got really bad.

Anan1

CJC999 wrote: »

I'm totally prepared. I have an AWD legacy and have a set of rims with Continental winter tyres if needed and another set with Yokohama snow/ice tyres if things got really bad.

What are you going to do, put on the right tyres when you start to slide? It's winter now!

Cee-Jay-Cee

Anan1 wrote: »

What are you going to do, put on the right tyres when you start to slide? It's winter now!

The tyres I currently have on the car (Bridgestone Turanzas) are new and have 99% thread remaining. They're fine for current weather conditions.

Anan1

CJC999 wrote: »

The tyres I currently have on the car (Bridgestone Turanzas) are new and have 99% thread remaining. They're fine for current weather conditions.

... I don't know where to even start...

Mycroft H

Discovery with BFG mud and snows. Snow? What snow.

kaimera

FWD small engine; all season b-stones all round; brand new on the rear.

fine bus

Ded_Zebra

I have made no preparations to my car whatsoever. I did check the freezing point of the coolant but that's it. I have 4 summer tyres and in the boot I have my standard pack with jump leads, water, oil, hivis, coat, folding sand ladder type things for putting under wheels if I get stuck. I carry this stuff all through the year . I also keep my car with at least a 1/4 tank of petrol just incase I get stuck in bad traffic or whatever. Seeing as the temperature has barely wiped below 4c so far this year winter tyres really aren't needed.

NuckingFacker

TrailerBob wrote: »

Landcruiser ftw*





* snow, flooding, trees down etc - unstoppable

Not great on ice, but if I take it easy it pulls well on it.

Stoppable enough if there's ice tbh.. I'd rather a front wheel drive small van with winter tyres, or a fwd car with winter tyres. We grit roads and when the weathers really rough, like we got a couple of years ago, jeeps are ok, but the small fwds are better. There was a Volve s40 on winters in the yard and it was grabbed first every time as it really just handled snow and ice brilliantly. Same went for a dispatch with winters on - brilliant on snow and ice. If you want helpless entertainent, use a rear wheel drive van - dicing with death springs to mind..:)

dgt

50% of the daily drivers here are. The other 50% do the most mileage :pac:

ednwireland

Dord wrote: »

FWD and I have snow socks in the boot. Better than nothing I suppose. I had winter tyres last year but the ride is bad enough on all seasons, on winters it was awful.

the firestone winterhawks i out on are quieter that the ditchfinders i had on the car before . also loads more grip

YbFocus

Cycling mod :eek:






Only messing

It's kind of cheating because I'm in Canada (in relatively mild Vancouver however). I bought a 04 Subaru Impreza 2.5 TS in October and the owner had just bought and equipped it with a set of all weather Nokian WRG2's that are rated for snow and ice. Had about 5 or 6 inches of snow the other day and it was great fun driving around the place, the Impreza handled it like a boss.

HandsomeDan

Where do you guys think you live?

Unless you live up a mountain, there's no need to do anything.

ednwireland

HandsomeDan wrote: »

Where do you guys think you live?

Unless you live up a mountain, there's no need to do anything.

2 miles up a hill in Donegal and ybfocus you've only just noticed imn a cycling mod how long have i posted in this forum lol

Anyhoo merryxmas

YbFocus

ednwireland wrote: »

2 miles up a hill in Donegal and ybfocus you've only just noticed imn a cycling mod how long have i posted in this forum lol

Anyhoo merryxmas

Never minded Edn, Happy christmas to you too

kaimera

kaimera wrote: »

FWD small engine; all season b-stones all round; brand new on the rear.

fine bus

and she still got her back end drift on with ice at the roundabout in front of work. bless her diesel engine. O.o

CiniO

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Anyhone know what percentage of the vehicles on Irelands roads are winterised, ie, can go pretty much anywhere based on snow and ice or thereabouts based on their awd 4wd setup. I'm thinking myself less than 1%.

awd, 4wd has very little to do with going anywhere.
Winterized cars are those with proper winter tyres, and adequate antifreeze (not water) and adequate oil.
Mine certainly is.

cerastes

Anan1 wrote: »

Winter tyres count for a lot more than awd when it gets slippy out.

Taking it handy counts too, for the conditions we have generally, drove around a small front wheel drive in the 3 bad winters, no problems, others the same or in a fiat panda.

Stella Virgo

CJC999 wrote: »

I'm totally prepared. I have an AWD legacy and have a set of rims with Continental winter tyres if needed and another set with Yokohama snow/ice tyres if things got really bad.

so you have 13 tyres and rims inc the spare for your car.....:rolleyes: sweet jebus i hope we dont get the weather you are expecting :D